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Needlebase was by far our top-performing Web scraper. With its death on June 1, what will rise to take its place?
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Needlebase is dead; Long live Needlebase

Tyler Dukes//June 1, 2012

Needlebase, an effective Web scraper popular among data journalists, was officially retired June 1. With the need for a user-friendly way to mine online databases greater than ever, is there anything well suited to take its place? Read More »

Tagged data // Ed Ramthun // Francis Irving // Justin Boyan // Needlebase // ScraperWiki // scraping
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